Isaac Caldwell

Isaac Caldwell (1795 – January 12, 1836)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1825 to 1826.[2]

This article is about the American judge. For the American lawyer and educator, see Isaac Caldwell (died 1885).

Born in Clinton, Mississippi, Caldwell became well-known as an attorney.[3] In 1829, Caldwell fought a duel with state legislator John R. Peyton over the latter's vote preventing Caldwell's hometown from being named capital of Mississippi; neither participant was injured.[3] Caldwell was the law partner of Senator George Poindexter, and following Poindexter's defeat in his 1836 bid for reelection, Caldwell ended up engaging in a duel with one of Poindexter's political opponents, Colonel Samuel Gwin.[4] The parties fought with pistols,[3][5] and "[b]oth parties fell. Caldwell expired in two hours. Gwin was shot through the lungs and survived about a year".[4]

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References
  1. The Rodney Telegraph (January 22, 1836), p. 2.
  2. Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
  3. Sue Thompson, "Old-Style Battles Once Fought On State Soil", Clarion-Ledger (August 8, 1971), p. 52.
  4. Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee: With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage and Douglass Families (1909), p. 252.
  5. "Jerry Mitchell, "History of high court justices in Miss. reveals tradition of impropriety", Clarion-Ledger (May 5, 2003), p. 1, 6.


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